We might have guessed at something of the kind from the double ration of chests that figured." "Does it explain anything ?" I asked.
"It would explain everything," Nares replied, "but for the steam-crusher.

It'll all tally as neat as a patent puzzle, if you leave out the way these people bid the wreck up.

And there we come to a stone wall.

But whatever it is, Mr.Dodd, it's on the crook." "And looks like piracy," I added.
"Looks like blind hookey!" cried the captain.

"No, don't you deceive yourself; neither your head nor mine is big enough to put a name on this business.".